: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Ukranian Artist’s ‘Faces of War’ Portrays Only One


As Russian President Vladimir Putin was addressing the United Nations in New York last month, he was also being featured in an art exhibition in Washington.

Not a flattering exhibit, it’s rendered in a unique medium that its Ukrainian creator, Daria Marchenko, calls not only a work of art, but a political statement.

“The Faces of War” ironically consists of only one picture — a portrait of Vladimir Putin made up of some 5,000 empty cartridge casings from the front lines in eastern Ukraine, where government forces battled Russian-backed separatists.

Marchenko says she got the idea when her boyfriend brought her first shell …read more

Source: Voice of America

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